CONSTRUCTION?!? What was I thinking?
After my twins were born in 2008, we started house hunting. That came to a quick halt when I found out I was pregnant with Joseph only six months after the twins arrived. When Joseph turned six months old, we started talking about house hunting once more. The only negative to buying a house (other than the financial end, which I will save for another blog!) is that we would move away from my family and we have come to rely on my parent, siblings, aunts and cousins to help us with the kids. But as this is a buyer’s market, we felt it was the best time to resume our hunt.
The hunt quickly ended when we made the decision to do construction at home and stick around for a few more years. We rent an apartment in my grandmother’s house, so we are lucky to have a yard, a garage, an attic and a basement. We spend most of our time in the basement, which is set up like a huge family room. We have a full kitchen and half-bath in the basement, so we have made it quite comfortable to spend our days, utilizing the yard, and having some more living space. The only drawback is that our apartment is on the third floor. So every night we have to trudge up 4 children three flights and every morning we trudge back down. Throw in laundry and diapers and everything else that goes up and down each day, it has been tiring and has taken its toll on us all.
We have decided to move our bedrooms downstairs to the first floor apartment. The construction crew came last week to gut the walls and start the work. I am very much looking forward to how much easier it will undoubtedly be when all is said and done, but I am wondering, were we totally crazy to make this decision?
Stick around, I will certainly be updating as construction resumes (contractor will be back in two weeks to get back to work) and I will probably be doing a lot of venting as we have to start packing and bringing everything down! Wish me luck!
Jennifer Nevadomski
Paul’s Wife
Mom to: Juliana, 8 – Louis and Anthony, 24 months – Joseph, 10 months
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